Anthony Michael Hall Quotes

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.